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  • I left catholocism shortly after getting my CS degree, but I think it works roughly like this:

     
            class Trinity {
         private:
          God g;
         public:
          God& father = g;
          God& son = g;
          God& holy_spirit = g;
        };
    
    
      

    Edit: stupid Lemmy can't render ampersands correctly: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3774

  • most new Android phones support > 3.0

    Where do you find that information? Do you know of a reviewer that benchmarks the USB transfer rate of Android phones?

    Edit: I found this: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-problem-usb-c-file-transfer-1075286/

    10.8GB / 480 Mbps = 180 seconds, and those phones are all faster, so they must be using USB 3.x. In other words, iPhone 15 will have slower USB data than the Pixel 1.

  • I've been using IPvFoo on all my PCs since I wrote it for Chrome 12 years ago. Recently I made it fully Firefox compatible. It's useful if you have IPv6 and want to see which websites are on board, though it's a bit depressing if your ISP only offers IPv4.

    I've found it particularly interesting on Lemmy, because it connects to such a wide variety of independent servers:

  • "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

    There probably is some value in understanding why "evil" things were attractive to people at the time, because if you believe that evil always looks unambiguously evil, then you might fail to notice when it happens again.

  • I agree that building wind/solar is currently profitable and reduces emissions. Incremental progress is politically easy.

    I remain skeptical that following this strategy will ever eliminate fossil fuels, because people will turn to them whenever renewables are underperforming. They'll see the price uncertainty and stick with gas because it works. We won't demolish the power plants because they're still needed 10 days a year. The fossil infrastructure will keep on chugging, just at a reduced scale. We'll eliminate 80% of CO2, and continue to cook ourselves with the last 20%. It's human nature to lose interest when the problem gets hard. Look how long it's taking to deploy IPv6, and that's relatively easy.

    We should invest in the hard problem now, so fission can actually take us carbon-negative in 30 years. Maybe fusion will save the day, but that's a gamble, and it's really not that much better than Gen IV fission.

  • If your goal is reliable carbon-free power, it's not obvious that renewables will work out. We basically have to build these enormous continent-spanning machines in order to maintain uptime regardless of weather conditions.

    It might be possible in the US and Europe, large regions that will hopefully remain politically stable, but it's never been done before. By comparison, we have built reliable nuclear power plants. Is it really so obvious who is the mechanic and who is the random guy?

  • Renewables are sold over the border more because they are naturally geographically distributed. I want to see nuclear on the grid as a power source of last resort, so we can destroy the fossil fuel infrastructure, yet keep civilization running if a volcano blocks out the sun or climate change turns the deserts cloudy, or who knows what the future holds.

    Fossil fuels are incredibly subsidized, both explicitly and through unpriced externalities. If we must subsidize the alternative, then so be it. Nuclear should get cheaper as we build more.

    Most nuclear plants today will melt down if left unattended. That's pretty stupid. We should let engineers make them orders of magnitude safer, with passive air cooling or huge water reserves, so they can be insured at reasonable cost. There is no shortage of ideas on that front.